{Romanesque style} (Arch.), that which grew up from the
attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture
and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely
applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall
of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic
architecture.
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